Slip Sequences in Laboratory Experiments Resulting from Inhomogeneous Shear as Analogs of Earthquakes Associated with a Fault Edge

Pure and Applied Geophysics

Volumn 168, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 2151-2166

  Rubinstein, Shmuel M ^a   Barel, Itay ^b   Reches, Ze'ev ^c   Braun, Oleg M ^d   Urbakh, Michael ^b   Fineberg, Jay ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^d INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTACT AREAS; CONTACT SURFACE; EARTHQUAKE NUCLEATION; EARTHQUAKE SEQUENCES; FINITE DISTANCE; FRICTIONAL CONTACT; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; SEQUENCE OF EVENTS; SHEAR LOADS; SLIP DYNAMICS; SLOW SLIP EVENTS; THEORETICAL MODELS; UNIFORM SHEAR;

EARTHQUAKES; EXPERIMENTS; LOADING;

FAULT SLIPS;

ANALOG MODEL; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; EARTHQUAKE TRIGGER; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FAULT GEOMETRY; LABORATORY METHOD; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SHEAR STRESS; SLIP RATE; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 84857562759     PISSN: 00334553     EISSN: 14209136     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00024-010-0239-1     Document Type: Article

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